NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (57W vs 160W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2011
Release Date
Feb 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
Radeon R500 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1002 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.3GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.91 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
43.62 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1046 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
87.19 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
57W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x Molex
Graphics Processor
GF114
GPU Name
RV570
GF114-400-A1
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
